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The Mortal Kombat devs were massive fans of kung fu and wuxia— MK itself is basically a big love letter to Big Trouble in Little China, One Armed Boxer, and Enter the Dragon. To be more specific, John Tobias (one of the original co-creators of the franchise alongside Ed Boon) was the big Wuxia fanb...

Also, on the subject of high profile actors, does anyone suppose that Neil Patrick Harris would’ve made a good Freeza? :lol: Well, he's had prior experience playing a space nazi at least. https://i.imgur.com/Py312lS.jpg Didn't like her in "Fairy Tail" or as the narrator in "My Bride is a Mermaid"? ...

Broli and Super 13 look alright to me; not great or anything, but passable enough. But that Goku?

What else am I supposed to call manga like DB, Naruto, MHA, etc. ? Simple: you call them by what actual genre they are. Because NONE of those titles you listed are within the same genre as each other whatsoever. We do this just fine with virtually EVERYTHING else: why does random stuff that happens...

Once again guys: Shonen is just a demographic, not a genre. Moments later... He's a great writer, someone who not only created a story that stood the test of time, but one that became the golden standard for the entire Shonen genre moving forward. More footage of Kunzait posting on Kanzenshuu https...

The fact DB is one of earliest shounen series, Shonen manga and anime had been around for numerous decades before DB ever existed. Calling it "one of the earliest Shonen series" is just plain factually not even remotely close to true. Once again guys: Shonen is just a demographic, not a genre. Shon...

But part of me can't help but find it a little amusing when some people act like the Funi dub is like the worst thing to ever happen in dubbing history when in reality it's far from it. When did I ever once make that claim? Where did I ever once indicate that FUNimation's DB is in any which way "th...

Also, even if you believe that actors like Sean Schemmel and Chris Sabat make actors from Power Rangers look like Marlon Brando, I’m not sure how the performances of the newer actors are really much better in comparison. Actors like Monica Rial and Colleen Clinkenbeard are about on the level of the...

Plus, where would one even draw the line in terms of getting rid of the older actors? What’s the cutoff supposed to be? In the words of Ellen Ripley: "Nuke the entire site from orbit: it's the only way to be sure." Scorched Earth the whole damn thing and start 1000% fresh from complete and utter wh...

Not so much that, it's not about being tainted(though i'm sure some like Kunzait view it that way) I'd really appreciate not having words put into my mouth. Anyway, I don't think I could've made it anymore clear at this point what my stance is on the dub voice cast: my reasons for preferring that t...

While I despise Ed Edd n Eddy you put way too much thought into this. Reiterating this part from before: I'm by no means trying to harp too much on Ed, Edd, n Eddy specifically for any other reason beyond it being just a prime example that perfectly illustrates what I've been talking about here (in...

When it isn't children's media, it's always the shallowest example of "adult media," which they can then point to and say "why bother watching non-children's stuff when adult media is so shallow?" It's never Taxi Driver or any of the Dollars Trilogy; it's Keeping Up With The Kardashians and the lat...

Anime was being embraced by American Pop Culture long before Z hit Toonami. Sci Fi had its own anime block in 1995 Akira was getting critical acclaim in the late 80s by the like of Roger Ebert. It was also influential on Batman Beyond whose show runners were definitely not introduced to anime by th...

I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch. I always side eye the people who say "Now my ki...

That's cool and all but I'm taking issue with Freeza here, not the character of Budai whom I have no experience with. That the only queer-coded characters in the series (pre-Whis, pre-Kale, pre-Caulifla) are despicable people is just really fucking embarrassing and harmful. I don't mind queer antag...

...but it's still intentionally overtly queer-coding a villain, while the protagonists are portrayed straight and flat as can be, especially during the Namek arc. Being based on a literary figure doesn't stop the issue from being an issue. ...uh...it says right here that the man is tied to homosexu...

What point? That there's nothing in Dragon Ball to learn from, take to heart, to consider? That it's artistically empty and devoid of any meaning? Not following, especially from you! You totally misunderstand. I was talking about what you said at the very end of that post, that your hill "wasn't mu...

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Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:05 pm

I guess that's one of my hills to die on? Doesn't seem like much of a hill, though.

Respectfully disagree. Seems like a fairly substantive point to me.

Film Critic Hulk called movies "empathy machines" but I think that's not limited to that one medium. I totally agree that the "empathy machine" descriptor can be applied to a number of other artistic mediums besides just films: anything from books to comics to video games can work just as well in t...

I do wonder what you mean exactly by "challenging" when talking about adult stories. Its an admittedly broad description, but if I had to narrow it down any, I would say stories & works that include any combination of any few or more of the following: - Genuine ambiguity about more than surface-lev...